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Revenue growth is the single biggest problem facing the global mobile services industry. Globally, mobile revenue has just 0.3 percent compound annual growth rate.
And even in the fastest-growing mobile markets globally--Sub-Saharan Africa-where subscriptions are growing at a compound annual growth rate of of 6.1 percent to 2020, about 50 percent faster than the global average, revenue growth is not keeping pace, expanding only about two percent per year. source: GSMA Intelligence
That is why the search for big new revenue contributors in the internet of things, entertainment video and other potential big new markets is so intense.
Total mobile revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa reached $40 billion in 2016, an increase of 3.9 percent, year over year. But revenue growth since 2017 has been trending downwards, driven in part by economic weakness.
Revenue growth will “remain subdued for the remainder of this decade due to the increasing cannibalization of traditional voice and messaging reven…

Revenue for the SD-WAN market overall was $221 million in the second quarter of 2018, doubling year-over-year and up 25 percent in sequential quarters, according to a report from IHS Markit.

source: IHS

Most of the revenue earned in the SD-WAN space is earned by edge device suppliers, although service provider alternatives are proliferating fast.

But that is not the point. If SD-WAN becomes a replacement for MPLS, the addressable market is much larger, on the order of $35 billion in service provider service provider revenue.

source: IHS

VMware had 18 percent market share, Aryaka was in second place with 15 percent and Cisco entered the top three with 12 percent, the report says.

source: IHS Markit

By 2025, entry-level (fixed network) broadband services should be made affordable in developing countries at less than two percent of monthly gross national income per person. That matters as the cost of using internet access services as a percentage of income is a key measure of affordability.
More importantly, the total number of active mobile broadband subscriptions is expected to reach 4.4 billion by end 2018, up from 3.3 billion, at the end 2015,  the International Telecommunications Union says. That matters since mobile internet access is the way most people in developing countries use internet access services.
This is a clear case of perceiving a “glass half empty, or half full.”
In January 2017, the Broadband Commission lowered the de-facto standard for Internet  affordability to two percent of average income, from the previous five percent levels, evidence of significant price declines.
Although the majority of the world’s population (52 percent or 3.7 billion) currently remai…

Some statements are factual, but arguably not “true.” It is factual that fixed network or terrestrial network coverage gaps exist in rural and other “hard to reach” areas. In many rural areas, especially mountainous areas where few people live, there might be zero mobile network coverage, to say nothing of fixed network coverage.
The existence of such gaps might, or might not, bear much relationship to the state of service quality in dense, suburban and other areas with greater population density. In other words, it is not a “failure” of government or industry that some areas have poor to no terrestrial network coverage. Some areas simply have such low population density that only satellite service is commercially viable, even with deployment subsidies.
The simple reality is that coverage of the “last couple of percent” of people in most countries with rural, mountainous or island geographies is quite expensive. In the U.S. market, for example, it is coverage of the last one percent o…

There are several reasons why the advent of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G vastly increases bandwidth, and thereby creates new business opportunities for mobile operators. Not only will millimeter wave spectrum represent a vast increase in mobile capacity (an order of magnitude to two orders of magnitude effective new spectrum), but millimeter wave spectrum also is more efficient.

Where spectrum below about 2 GHz has a spectral efficiency up to 2.5 bits per Hertz in a 4G context, and up to 3.8 bits per Hertz on a 5G network, millimeter wave spectrum has an efficiency up to seven bits per Hertz.

Basically, not only does millimeter wave spectrum represent an order of magnitude more capacity (Hertz), it also represents more bits per Hertz, as much as double what is possible on a 5G network using spectrum below 2 GHz or so. The reason has much to do with frequency and its relationship to symbol representation.  

source: T-Mobile US

The importance of content, especially video content, delivered on mobile networks can be glimpsed from a new forecast by Ovum. By 2028, about 90 percent of 5G traffic is expected to be video.
Between 2019 and 2028, Ovum analysts predict, media and entertainment companies will compete for about $3 trillion in cumulative mobile content revenues, of which about $1.3 trillion will be earned on 5G networks, Ovum suggests.

By 2025, 57 percent of mobile revenue globally will be earned on 5G networks, say researchers at Ovum. By 2028, Intel and Ovum expect that number to rise to 80 percent.
he report, sponsored by Intel,  predicts that augmented reality and virtual reality will generate cumulative revenues of $140 billion (£106 billion) between 2021 and 2028.
Immersive and new media applications which don’t even exist today could generate $67 billion (£50.8 billion) a year by 2028, equivalent to the value of the entire global media market in 2017, including games, music and films, the study s…